NEW LEADERSHIP TEAM

[jmanico]

We are looking for new leadership to help run this project.

Does anyone here who knows the project well, and understands how to handle release management well, want to help clean up this project?

We need a new co-leader who can help drive releases and help clean up bugs without sacrificing security of this project.

Anyone? Thank you!

[mikesamuel]

Sorry. I've been impossible to reach. I can give privileges to whomever you think is deserving on github and maven, and maybe answer Qs and help get people through their first push but I am spread thin for the foreseeable future.

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[jmanico]

Hey @mikesamuel it's all good, you have done great work for us. I'll find other folks to help with commits and similar. This is an OWASP repo, so I have admin access.

I'll just ask a few questions about deployments in the future, but otherwise we totally understand you're busy.

Thank you for answering! :)

[mikesamuel]

I suspect the maven credentials are keyed off the groupId which unfortunately is <groupId>com.googlecode.owasp-java-html-sanitizer</groupId>, not org.owasp.

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[mrabhishek]

What kind of credentials are you looking for the project leadership? I have used this library at work extensively and I can help manage it. I haven't contributed to the code though.

[jmanico]

What kind of credentials are you looking for the project leadership? I have used this library at work extensively and I can help manage it. I haven't contributed to the code though.

We're looking for someone who understands the library and understands Git enough to help us do releases and triage problems. There are several of us active who know the code, but we need someone to drive releases.

Would you be interested? Thank you!

[mrabhishek]

Sure. I hope there will be some help available in the beginning? Say the next first release? I do understand the library and have enough experience with Git. I do see a script meant to help with release. https://github.com/OWASP/java-html-sanitizer/blob/main/RELEASE-checklist.sh

I'm signing up for this. Let's see how it goes! :).

Any other documentation w.r.t to releases that is not in the repository , please send it across.

[mikesamuel]

@mrabhishek Sounds good. When did you want to give it a try? I'm on US Mountain time (GMT-6) and could jump on a screen share.

[jmanico]

Hey folks. Several senior Java folks from the Java Champion community want to help here.

Please give us just a few days to chime into this thread and we can all meet at once to minimize the use of Mike's valuable time. 🙏🏼

Is that cool everyone?

[aalmiray]

Hello! I’m Andres Almiray and together with Ben Evans (@kittylyst) would like to help with releases and modernize the project. @jmanico suggested we jumped over at this thread 👋

[jmanico]

Thank you to everyones who has agreed to help us do releases.

So @mrabhishek and @aalmiray ...

Mike Samuel, the founder and tech lead for the project, is on US Mountain time (GMT-6) and would like to jump on a screen share and show you all how to do releases and more.

Can you let us know when you are free?

[aalmiray]

I'm at GMT+2. Friday the 15th may be an option, otherwise next week would work out.

[kittylyst]

Hi folks. I'm travelling at the moment, so next week would be preferable for me, but if Friday 15th is the best time for everyone else, I can make it happen.

I'm GMT+1 this week and usually GMT+2.